“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like a clock in a thunderstorm.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 5

The political climate of the 1850's and 1860's was rife with the scurrilous. According to the newspapers of the day, Lincoln was “a third-rate lawyer;” he lived “in low Hoosier style;” he “could not speak good grammar;” he delivered “coarse and clumsy jokes;” he was descended from “an African gorilla.”